Book ID: CBB000831117

Victorian Freaks: The Social Context of Freakery in Britain (2008)

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Tromp, Marlene (Editor)


Ohio State University Press


Publication Date: 2008
Physical Details: xiii + 328 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Contributors: Heather McHold, Joyce L. Huff, Timothy Neil, Meegan Kennedy, Christine C. Ferguson, Nadja Durbach, Marlene Tromp, Kelly Hurley, Rebecca Stern, Martha Stoddard Holmes, Melissa Free, and Christopher R. Smit.


Citation URI
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Authors & Contributors
Sullivan, Jill A.
Plunkett, John
Hoffenberg, Peter H.
Durbach, Nadja
Clarton, Jay
Smeele, Wietske
Journals
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
British Journal for the History of Science
Publishers
University of California Press
Pickering & Chatto
Northwestern University
University of Minnesota Press
University of Chicago Press
Routledge
Concepts
Exhibitions and fairs
Science and society
Human body
Teratology; monsters
Science and culture
Medicine
People
Galton, Francis
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
20th century
Places
Great Britain
Thailand
Australia
India
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